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Today’s album is probably my favorite jazz album of all time. I originally bought this album based on recognizing the name Sarah Vaughn and loving the cover. Having recently “getting” Jazz for the first time via Cookin’ by the Miles Davis Quintet I was hot to get another cool cool jazz record. Much like my […]

Here is day 6 of my favorite albums in no particular order. You can start at the beginning of the list here. Today’s album is the last one ever made by this artist. Glenn Gould caused a sensation when he recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 1955. Gould re-recorded the piece in 1981 and I believe […]

This is the 4th in a series talking about my top 10 most important albums. You can see the beginning of the series here. Today I’m sharing one of my favorite rock albums of all time. This is the first album by the White Stripes. Plenty has been written about them, both good and bad. […]

This is my third album of my top ten most personally important albums list. You can see the start of the series here. Today I’m highlighting an album that has opened a lot of doors for me. I first heard Ravi Shankar’s The Sounds of India in a music class in college. I recognized the […]

Continuing a listing of the 10 most important albums in my life in no particular order. See the beginning of the series here. Today’s album is the very first one I ever bought. I was living in the suburbs of Richmond, VA in 79 or 80. I can’t remember if I had saved up my […]

My brother shared a cute Facebook thing were we are supposed to share our favorite 10 albums over 10 days. The idea is to just post the album covers and not really editorialize about them. Well, I take this stuff too seriously to let it go like that. Here are my 10 most important albums […]

On May 1st 2017, the US court of Appeals ruled that the FCC had the authority to name ISPs Title II organizations. This meant that ISPs had to abide by the rules pertaining to net neutrality. What often goes unreported is that the court also held that ISPs could opt out of this arrangement by […]

We all know healthcare is expensive. The question is why is it expensive? The typical answer is that it is all down to “greedy” insurance companies, drug companies, and even doctors. One of my favorite economics aphorisms is that blaming greed for high prices is like blaming gravity for plane crashes. The fact that, as […]

Should health care be a public good? What does that mean? For most people the idea of a public good is simply something that is a good thing for society. Along those lines it is also assumed that the price of that good, if it is thought about at all, is low and made available […]

There are two questions I have about the not standing up for the national anthem brouhaha that I have not seen addressed. First of all, why do we play the national anthem at a sporting event at all? I understand why it would be played at official national or military ceremonies, that makes sense. But […]